Little-Known Disorder Can Take a Toll on Learning
A talk-show host brings attention to auditory processing disorders in children, which are often misdiagnosed as attention problems or even autism.
View ArticleAn Objective Test for Attention Problems
Children with attention-deficit problems typically are diagnosed after a parent or teacher raises concerns. But many critics say the disorder is diagnosed too often, prompting calls for a more...
View ArticleExtra Time for College Admissions Tests
Students with learning disabilities or attention deficit problems can ask for special accommodations when taking college admissions tests. However, guidance counselors and disabilities advocates say...
View ArticleThe Reality of Attention Deficit Disorder
A.D.H.D. is not a metaphor. It is not the restlessness and rambunctiousness that happen when grade-schoolers are deprived of recess. It's something far more complicated, writes pediatrician Dr. Perri...
View ArticleAttention Problems, Except for Screens
Why is it that children with attention deficit problems at school can be held in rapt attention by a video game or television program?
View ArticleFor Better Grades, Try Gym Class
Exercise significantly affected children's ability to concentrate, although some activities seemed to be better than others at sharpening attention.
View ArticleA.D.H.D. Drug Shortage Has Patients Scrambling
The shortages are the result of a troubled partnership between drug manufacturers, which want to maximize their profits, and the Drug Enforcement Administration, which wants to curtail abuse of the...
View ArticleDriving With Attention Deficit Disorder
Learning to drive present special challenges for those with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
View ArticleAttention Problems May Be Sleep-Related
Researchers say that many children who are found to have an attention disorder may in fact have a different problem: a sleep disorder, like apnea.
View ArticlePediatric Prescriptions Down for Allergies, Up for A.D.H.D.
From 2002 to 2010, prescriptions for teenagers and children for allergy medications fell 61 percent, drugs for treating attention deficit/hyperactivity soared 46 percent, a study found.
View ArticleYounger Students More Likely to Get A.D.H.D. Drugs
Students who are the youngest in their grades scored worse on standardized tests than their older classmates and were more likely to be prescribed stimulants for attention deficit disorder, a new study...
View ArticleA ‘Dose of Nature’ for Attention Problems
Green spaces may help children with attention deficit problems improve concentration.
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